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Educated at Downside. Matriculated in 1957. Assistant Registrary in the Old Schools. Made a Fellow on 10 August 1977. Bursar, 1 October 1977–2001 (and Steward to 1997); Tutor, 1997–2003; Development Director, 1997–2003; Honorary Fellow, 2005. A keen golfer and an enthusiast for all things Italian.

Educated at Isleworth Grammar School and St John's College (Matriculated in 1956); PhD 1963, LittD 1993; College Lecturer in History, 1960–2000.
Fellow, 1962 (Emeritus 2003); College Librarian, 1963–1993; Admissions Tutor, 1980–1982; President, 1996–1998 (Acting 1992–1993, Michaelmas 1994); Archivist, 2000.
University Lecturer in History, 1965–1996; Reader in British Imperial History, 1996 (Emeritus 1999); Smuts Distinguished Lecturer, 2000. Research Editor, British Documents on the End of Empire Project, 1987–2000 and member of the Project Committee, 1991–2005.

Mary Henrietta Mallory was born in 1885 and was the older sister of George Mallory [there were four siblings - Annie Victoria (known as Avie), Mary, George and Trafford]. Mary married Francis Ralph Russell Brooke on 22 July 1914 who served with the Royal Garrison Artillery in the Great War. They had two children, David and Barbara.

Educated at Lancing College and in 1916 joined the Royal Artillery serving in France during the First World War.
In 1919 he matriculated at Magdalene and studied Classics. He achieved Firsts in both parts of the Tripos and was President of the Boat Club.
In 1923 he was elected a Bye-Fellow and joined the University Press as Assistant Printer.
In 1927 he returned to Magdalene as a Fellow and Tutor and Lecturer in Classics.

WWII - Temporary Administrative Officer, Air Ministry, 1940 - 44.
In 1942 he married Louise May Bywaters and they had two sons and a daughter.

Senior Tutor, 1945 - 1964
Director of Studies in Classics, 1945 - 1969
President, 1962 - 1967
He continued to interview admissions candidates after reaching the age of 70, and died in the middle of one such interview.

Obituary: College Magazine, No.13, 1968-69, pp. 1-5 (F. McD Turner)

According to Venn, John and Venn, John Archibald, Alumni Cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900 he was 'Said to have been at Magdalene’.

Served as MP for Beeralston Bere Alston in Devon, 1728-33.
Succeeded his father as 10th Earl of Suffolk in 1733 and so also became the Visitor.
Married Sarah Hucks, daughter of William Huscks of London, brewer and had no children.

As Visitor he appointed Edward Abbott to the Mastership in 1740.

He died at Audley End from gout, aged 39. As there were no children the visitorship passed to the Countess of Portsmouth [see MCWA/A/103].

Matriculated from Magdalene College in 1909.
Joined the Colonial Service, but left for war service in 1914: Royal Flying Corps. Deputy Allied Commander on D-Day in 1944; Chief of the Air Staff, 1946-1950.
Made an Honorary Fellow in 1943.
Chancellor of the University (in succession to Field-Marshal Smuts), 1950-1967.

Arms in Hall glass, W1.

References:
Archives C/HUW/9/2;
'The Chancellor of the University' by H. Willink, College Magazine, No. 82 (1951), pp. 7-8
'In Memoriam', by H, Willink, College Magazine, No. 11 (1966-67)
Short paragraph in the College Magazine, No. 34 (1989-90) p. 36
‘Tedder’s letters from Magdalene: a selection, 1909-1913’ College Magazine, No. 45 (2000-01), pp. 100-110

A British artist. He was a member of the Royal Academy and well known as a portrait painter in the 1920s and 1930s. Todd was born in Helston in Cornwall. His father, Ralph Todd was a successful artist who taught at the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London. The younger Todd received art tuition from Stanhope Forbes in Newlyn before attending the Central School as a student. Todd served in the British Army during the First World War as a driver with the Army Service Corps. After the War, Todd had a picture exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1918. He enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art and was there throughout 1920 and 1921. When he left the Slade, Todd travelled throughout France, Holland and Italy. Returning to Britain, Todd established himself as a successful artist becoming known for his portraits and his pastel and etching works.

Could be useful to see if this might be Theodore Blake Wirgman (29 April 1848 – 16 January 1925), although the initial seems wrong.

Educated at the University of Witwatersrand, and University of South Africa (BA); lawyer; President of South Africa, 1994-1999; Nobel (Peace) Laureate, 1993. In 1994 he agreed that the College’s South African postgraduate scholarships (set up by Mr Christopher von Christierson) should be awarded in his name. Elected Honorary Fellow, 2000, and admitted 2 May 2001.

Master of Magdalene College, 1986-1994

Educated at King's College Cambridge. Lawyer of the Middle Temple (Bencher, 1981; Master-Treasurer, 1998); QC, 1972; chairman of the Bar, 1984-1985; knighted, 1991.
Member and chairman of numerous legal bodies and committees of inquiry, and author of government papers, eg. Report of the Committee on Privacy (1990) and Review of press self-regulation (1993).
Fellow-Commoner, 1980-1985
Master, 1986-1985
Made an Honorary Fellow on his retirement from the Mastership in 1994.

Married Barbara Walker, 1969; she was a JP and a Freeman of the City of London. Lady Calcutt was a particular supporter of the Magdalene Boat Club.

College Magazine

Article by R.W.M. Dias, College Magazine, No. 29 (1984-85) pp. 3-6
Article, College Magazine, No. 38 (1993-94) p. 4
Article, College Magazine, No. 48 (2003-04) pp. 8-15 (A.D. Rawley, D.J.H. Murphy, Sir D. Oulton)

Seamus Heaney was born at Mossbawn farm, near Castledawson, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland on 13 April 1939. After an education, teaching and lecturing in English in Belfast from the late 1950s through the 1960s, with ‘The Troubles’ he and his family moved to Eire in 1972. He lived in Dublin from 1976 until his death (30 August 2013). His publications include Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), The Haw Lantern (1987) and The Spirit Level (1996). His modern translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf, won him a second Whitbread Book of the Year Prize in 2000. Heaney held the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1989 until 1994 and Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard from 1985 to 1998. He was selected for numerous awards and honours including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 - 'for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past' - and the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award in 2012.

College Magazine
Obituary by E. Duffy in College Magazine, No. 58, 2013-14 (pp. 11-16)

Carolyn Mulholland was born in 1944 in Lurgan, County Armagh. She attended the Belfast College of Art, and in 1965 was awarded the Ulster Arts Club prize for sculpture.b] A close friend of Seamus Heaney, Mulholland sculpted a portrait bust of Heaney while a student in the 1960s. Mulholland donated a picture to an exhibition to raise funds for victims of civil disturbances in Belfast in the autumn of 1969. The exhibition at Queen's University was organised by Sheelagh Flanagan and showed works by William Scott, Graham Gingles, F E McWilliam, Deborah Brown, Cherith McKinstry, and Mercy Hunter, as well as more than twenty others.The wife of the Northern Irish Secretary of State Colleen Rees was the curator of a personal selection of works from Ulster Artists hosted at the Leeds Playhouse Gallery in 1976. Mulholland's work was among 49 artworks from various artists where she was displayed alongside TP Flanagan, Joe McWilliams, Mercy Hunter, Tom Carr and many others.

Much of Mulholland's sculpture depicts moving abstract figures. In 1973 she was awarded the Royal Ulster Academy Silver Medal Award. In 1974 Mulholland was elected Associate of the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts alongside Renée Bickerstaff and Francis Neill. She was elected a member of Aosdána in 1990. She has been exhibited at the Pepper Canister Gallery in Dublin with Basil Blackshaw. In 1992 she won the Irish-American Cultural Institute's O'Malley Award. The Chester Beatty Library holds a portrait by Mulholland of Beatty from 1996, and the Office of Public Works holds her portrait of President Mary McAleese from 2003.

Mulholland has been commissioned to make a number of large and public sculptures, including for the famine memorial graveyard, Clones, County Monaghan in 1998, and in 2003 a bronze panel for the Customs House, Dublin. She has also been commissioned in Northern Ireland, by organisations such as the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. She created the Blitz Memorial for the Northern Ireland War Memorial museum in Belfast.

Matriculated in 1795; Fellow, 1802-1818.

Arms in Hall glass, W2.

An English etcher, aquatint and stipple engraver, landscape and portrait painter and the brother of Charles Lewis (1786–1836).

Lewis was a famous engraver, one of a family dynasty of artists, 'one of the most prolific, skilled and versatile print-makers of his time' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).

Matriculated from Magdalene in 1913. Made a Fellow in 1920; Appointed Pepys Librarian, 1920-1926, Life Fellow, 1963.
Librarian of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, 1926–1958, and Deputy Keeper of the Royal Archives from 1930.
Author of Everybody's Pepys (1926).

Obituary in the College Magazine, vol. 21, 1976-77, pp. 8-10

See also: the College Magazine vol. 56, 2011-12), pp. 60-63, 'Morshead and Kelly' by R. Luckett.

Mentioned by George Mallory in a letter to his wife Ruth.

Anton Ivanovich Denikin was a Russian Lieutenant General in the Imperial Russian Army (1916), later served as the Deputy Supreme Ruler of Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. He was also a military leader of South Russia (as commander in chief).

Mentioned by George Mallory.

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [known as Mahatma Gandhi] (1869–1948), political leader and religious and social reformer, was born in Porbandar, Kathiawar, western India, on 2 October 1869, to Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi and his fourth wife, Putlibai: he was the youngest of the one daughter and three sons of the marriage.

Friend and Biographer of George Mallory.

Born on 29 April 1886 in Hampstead, London, the sixth of the seven children of William Arthur Pye, wine merchant, and his wife, Margaret Thompson. Educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge and was placed in the first class of the mechanical sciences tripos in 1908. In 1909 C. F. Jenkin invited Pye to join him in Oxford and he was elected a fellow of New College in 1911.

During the First World War, Pye taught at Winchester College (1915–16), then worked as an experimental officer in the Royal Flying Corps on design and testing, and learned to fly as a pilot. In 1919 he returned to Cambridge as a lecturer, and became a fellow of Trinity where he met Henry Tizard and Harry Ricardo. This association led to important pioneer work on the internal combustion engine.

In 1926 Pye married Virginia Frances, daughter of Charles Moore Kennedy, barrister. They had two sons and a daughter.

Pye's The Internal Combustion Engine (2 vols., 1931–4) was published in the Oxford Engineering Science series, of which he became an editor. In 1925 he was appointed deputy director of scientific research at the Air Ministry. He succeeded him as director in 1937 and in the same year was appointed CB and elected FRS. During the early war years he became closely associated with the development of the new jet propulsion aircraft engine which he did much to encourage.

In 1943 Pye accepted the provostship of University College, London. Serious illness forced him to resign in 1951. He was knighted in 1952 and in the same year became president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Pye was an enthusiastic climber and in 1922 was elected to the Alpine Club of which he became vice-president in 1956. He was a friend of George Mallory's and on his and Andrew Irvine's loss he wrote: Those two black specks, scarcely visible among the vast eccentricities of nature, but moving up slowly, intelligently, into regions of unknown striving, remain for us a symbol of the invincibility of the human spirit.

Geoffrey Winthrop Young was born in 1876 and was the son of Sir George Young and Alice Eacy. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was one of the most famous British mountaineers before the First World War. He met George Mallory at a dinner in Cambridge in February 1909 and they remained close friends often climbing together at the climbing parties at Pen y Pass (these were gatherings of leading climbers in Snowdonia). Geoffrey was Mallory's best man at his wedding to Ruth. He served in Belgium and France during the First World War as a war correspondent for the Daily News. He founded and commanded the Friends' Ambulance Unit in Flanders, and served mostly at Ypres. In August 1917 he was severely wounded and had his left leg amputated above the knee. After the War he continued to write and climb with only one leg. In 1918 he married Eleanor Slingsby and had 2 children. He died in 1958 and his ashes were scattered on the peaks above Pen y Pass.

John de Vars Hazard was a member of the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition.

Edward Shebbeare was a member of the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition, serving as transport officer. He was the deputy leader and transport officer of the 1933 expedition and served as transport officer on the 1929 German Kanchenjunga expedition. In 1928, he was a founding member of The Himalayan Club. He was also a keen naturalist, particularly interested in rhinoceros and elephant conservation. In 1940, he was the founding president of the Malayan Nature Society.

Mentioned by George Mallory.

Pamela Frances Audrey Bulwer-Lytton (née Chichele-Plowden), Countess of Lytton, (1873 or 1874-1971), Society beauty; wife of 2nd Earl of Lytton; daughter of Sir Trevor John Chichele-Plowden.

John was George Mallory's third and youngest child and only son. He had two sisters Clare and Beridge. John donated his father's letters to the College.

Friend and employer of George Mallory.

David Herbert Somerset Cranage was the son of Dr Joseph Edward Cranage of Old Hall, Wellington, Shropshire and was educated at King's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1897 and he held curacies at Little Wenlock (1897–98) and Much Wenlock (1898–1902) in Shropshire. He was an academic at the University of Cambridge, where he lectured on mediaeval churches and was Secretary of the Local Lectures Syndicate, until his appointment as Dean of Norwich, a post he held for 19 years.

He appointed George Mallory to his position as lecturer and assistant secretary in the Cambridge University Board of Extramural Studies in 1923.

He died on 22 October 1957, aged 91.

Alan Goodfellow was a pupil of George Mallory at Charterhouse School. He joined Mallory on some of his climbing trips.

Climbing sherpa on 1921 Mount Everest Expedition with George Mallory, mentioned by name.

Friend of George Mallory, born in Ireland, wife of Brigadier Walter Headfort Brooke.

Karma Paul was a interpreter on the 1922 and 1924 British Mount Everest Expeditions, mentioned by name by George Mallory.

Among the climbers of the 1924 Third British Expedition to Everest Karma Paul had perhaps one of the least glamorous but most important jobs. He wasn't a climber, he never summited Everest, but as the group's translator his job was vital in communicating with the native Himalayan people and with the group's own Sherpa.

Karma Paul was fluent in Nepali, English and Tibetan and would serve as the translator for all the British expeditions from 1922 to 1938. Aside from his work as interpreter Paul also served as a recruiter and all-around moderator between the expedition and the native people.

Following the death of Sherpa Shamsher Pun from a likely blood clot on the brain, Paul was dispatched to the Rongbuk Monastery to see if the Sherpas, who were suffering low spirits following the death of young Pun, might be blessed by the head Lama there. The Lama agreed and invited the entire expedition to the monastery where he blessed them all and declared that they had been forced back by demons who would not do so again.

Following his career on Everest, Paul trained himself to be a skilled auto mechanic and in the 1950s won a small fortune at the horse races. He retired to Darjeeling.

Robert Graves had been a pupil at Charterhouse when George Mallory was a Master there. Mallory introduced him to contemporary literature and took him mountaineering in the holidays.

At the outbreak of the First World War Graves enlisted taking a commission in the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a second lieutenant (on probation) on 12 August. He was confirmed in his rank on 10 March 1915, and received rapid promotions to lieutenant on 5 May 1915 and to captain on 26 October.

He published his first volume of poems, Over the Brazier, in 1916. He developed an early reputation as a war poet and was one of the first to write realistic poems about the experience of frontline conflict. At the Battle of the Somme, he was so badly wounded by a shell-fragment through the lung that he was expected to die and was officially reported as having died of wounds. He gradually recovered and, apart from a brief spell back in France, spent the remainder of the war in England.